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Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by donall »

sbmassey wrote: post #23
onli wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

The purpose of the swearword "fuck" is to signal that you are passionate and emotionally unrestrained about something, with a slight underlying threat of violence. Can someone explain why that is appropriate on this well crafted site?

No it isn't. That may be how you interpret it but it's an incredibly versatile word with semantics that are notoriously hard to pin down.

In this case "what the fuck" is a well-established idiom. Many people don't even notice the vulgarity.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by weaksauce »

jcbmllgn wrote: post #30
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

I just put up an alternate to wtfnasa called wtnasa (what the NASA) - http://wtnasa.com/ I hope this is something you would send to your niece with a clean conscience :)

The page title is still "wtfnasa?"

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by rabidonrails »

jcbmllgn wrote: post #30
acoyfellow wrote: post #2

For some reason, using the entire word "fuck" was shocking in a odd way for me. It's sending mixed signals- it's sounding harsh not funny. I personally think it could be stronger with a nice headline not using it- this idea is really awesome. There is something off in the relationship between the whole written word and the "ideals" of NASA. I love this, but I think it's a little over-the-top with the whole word being…

I just put up an alternate to wtfnasa called wtnasa (what the NASA) - http://wtnasa.com/ I hope this is something you would send to your niece with a clean conscience :)

kudos for putting this up.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by mcantelon »

jcbmllgn wrote: post #26

Hi HN, my name is Jacob, I'm the guy that made wtfnasa. Here's my tl;dr reaction to the virality that this project has seen: wtfnasa was not made to go viral, it was made to be a simple intro to CodeIgniter & a reaction to people upset with NASA, I put ~zero thought into having 'fuck' in the title, it was built in about 10 hours (design, build, data entry, & launch) last Wednesday & Thursday, it had 9 unique visitors…

Nice work. What do the two buttons do? Some kind of ranking algorithm behind the scenes in play?

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by ericssmith »

icebraining wrote: post #19
spitx wrote: post #13

Someone pointed out the other day that an estimated $71 billion per year is lost in US tax revenue because of religious tax exemptions. If religious organizations paid taxes like everyone else, NASA could send 28 rovers to Mars per year...EVERY YEAR. FOREVER. (Total Cost of current Curiosity mission : $2.5 billion, including $1.8 billlion for spacecraft development and science investigations and additional amounts fo…

While I'm not a religious person, and you won't be seeing me give money to any church, it's not that simple. Firstly, the idea that you can calculate the loss in taxes by just applying the tax on paper is fundamentally incorrect, since the tax itself creates an incentive not to spend money that way. Secondly, churches spend part of the money on social assistance, and so a reduction in their income may increase the fu…

"churches spend part of the money on social assistance"

As a vehicle for proselytizing. Organizations that are dedicated to social assistance have reporting requirements that churches don't. It's not transparent at all what churches spend their money on. It's a murky government-sponsored wealth redistribution scheme. Not unlike the financial industry in that regard.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by jcbmllgn »

weaksauce wrote: post #33
jcbmllgn wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just put up an alternate to wtfnasa called wtnasa (what the NASA) - http://wtnasa.com/ I hope this is something you would send to your niece with a clean conscience :)

The page title is still "wtfnasa?"

Oops, fixed.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by jcbmllgn »

mcantelon wrote: post #35
jcbmllgn wrote: post #26

Hi HN, my name is Jacob, I'm the guy that made wtfnasa. Here's my tl;dr reaction to the virality that this project has seen: wtfnasa was not made to go viral, it was made to be a simple intro to CodeIgniter & a reaction to people upset with NASA, I put ~zero thought into having 'fuck' in the title, it was built in about 10 hours (design, build, data entry, & launch) last Wednesday & Thursday, it had 9 unique visitors…

Nice work. What do the two buttons do? Some kind of ranking algorithm behind the scenes in play?

Yeah, besides reloading the page it's also doing some very simple ranking in the background.

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by Tloewald »

MengYuanLong wrote: post #17
onli wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't be so fucking american. Swearwords are not not to be used. They serve its function, and here it is part of a well crafted site which is trying to make a point. edit: Though I agree with harrywincup that the wtf-approach at first seems like nasa did nothing good.

NASA is American... So, who is the target audience then? Is the author intending to persuade western Europeans to fund NASA? Swearing may be 'fun' but it still isn't what should be front facing for a business.

Business?

Re: What has NASA done to make your life awesome?

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Post by jacoblyles »

ericssmith wrote: post #36
icebraining wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I'm not a religious person, and you won't be seeing me give money to any church, it's not that simple. Firstly, the idea that you can calculate the loss in taxes by just applying the tax on paper is fundamentally incorrect, since the tax itself creates an incentive not to spend money that way. Secondly, churches spend part of the money on social assistance, and so a reduction in their income may increase the fu…

"churches spend part of the money on social assistance" As a vehicle for proselytizing. Organizations that are dedicated to social assistance have reporting requirements that churches don't. It's not transparent at all what churches spend their money on. It's a murky government-sponsored wealth redistribution scheme. Not unlike the financial industry in that regard.

"As a vehicle for proselytizing."

...which produces more social assistance.

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